Yesterday’s Writers Grotto Picnic in Golden Gate Park was such a lovely way to gather, catch up, and enjoy our community outside the usual walls. Thanks to everyone who came—and a special thank-you to the folks who organized and made it happen! 🌳📚💚
The Writers Grotto
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Our September Literary Salon, "Who am I really, and who can I be? Denial, Secrets, Liberation, Transformation" was a kaleidoscope of emotions.
Join us for a FREE lunchtime reading in the beautiful Wetlands Garden of the TJPA Salesforce Park! Laurie Ann Doyle and Sean Beaudoin will be reading from their work, come by! Words & Stories Reading Series September 30 • 1:00–1:30pm Wetlands Garden of TJPA’s Salesforce Park #sanfranciscoevents
Words & Stories had another wonderful afternoon this past Wednesday at the Wetlands Garden at Salesforce Park! 🌿 Thank you to Lee Ann Prescott and Sarita Sarvate for sharing their work, and to everyone who joined us. Come by next Wednesday for another free lunchtime reading!
I’m very excited to start the next-next thing. This fall, I’m an Ann Getty Endowed Visiting-Artist Scholar at the University of San Francisco, working on a novel inspired by the painter Bernice Bing. On Tuesday, 9/29 at 5:30 pm, I’ll be giving an introductory talk USF's McLaren Complex 250.
I have several upcoming events & would love to see you at one or more of them.
So fortunate to talk to Andrew Tonkovich, host of Bibliocracy. Such brilliant questions and insights about my novel, OPEN THE FLOODGATES, about the River who is granted personhood and has the right--and urgent need--to argue in court for its existence. www.bibliocracyradio.org/episodes/p7z...
Nina Schuyler on Open the Floodgates — Bibliocracy Radio
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In this four-week generative class, students will explore hybrid writing that moves between poetry, essay, memoir, and prose. Fridays, October 2nd - 23rd 11:30am - 1:30pm. Via Zoom. www.writersgrotto.org/classes-and-... #writing #writingcommunity #writingcraft #poetrywriting #memoirwriting
Fall into fall! This weekend, I'm off to the Bookmarks Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on Saturday, Sept. 26 at 11:30 am with these powerhouses. www.bookmarksnc.org/festival/inf...
This class will help writers working on a book-length manuscript explore hybrid techniques as a way to solve four common issues in memoir writing. Sunday, September 27th; from 10:00am-1:00pm PT. Via Zoom. www.writersgrotto.org/classes-and-... #writing #writingcommunity #memoir #memoirwriting
Join us for a FREE lunchtime reading in the beautiful Wetlands Garden of the TJPA Salesforce Park! Sarita Sarvate and Lee Ann Prescott will be reading from their work, come by! Words & Stories Reading Series September 23 • 1:00–1:30pm Wetlands Garden of TJPA’s Salesforce Park #literaryevents
Learn how to write an irresistible pitch. Saturday, September 26th, from 10:00am - 12pm PT. Via Zoom. www.writersgrotto.org/classes-and-... #writing #writingcommunity
In this four-week generative class, students will explore hybrid writing that moves between poetry, essay, memoir, and prose. Fridays, October 2nd - 23rd; from 11:30am - 1:30pm. Via Zoom. www.writersgrotto.org/classes-and-... #writing #writingcommunity #poetrywriting #memoirwriting
It’s my book in a list 💕
Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · 3mo agoAs one of the judges of the inaugural Protopian Prize contest, @r-emrys.bsky.social spends a lot of time thinking about how fiction can inspire real, positive change--to that end, here are five speculative books about futures worth fighting for!
Fall into fall! Wednesday (9/16) at Napa Bookmine w/ Nina Schuyler--where we'll have much to discuss. So many thematic similarities and concerns across our novels. Friday (9/18) at On Waverly in San Francisco's Chinatown with Aimee Phan and Lillian Li on how to build a literary life.
🔥COVER REVEAL: LIGHT AND ASH: A Novel of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake …COMING APRIL 2027! 🔥 Thrilled to share this gorgeous new cover by the talented Alicia Feltman at @sibyllinepress.bsky.social. After the ’06 quake, SF became a photographer’s paradise. So many of these works inspired me! ♥️♥️
Tonight! Please join us! The official launch of Open the Floodgates, where the River is granted personhood and has the right--and urgent need--to argue in court for its existence. What could go wrong?
A new story titled Karma Coffee up in Revolution John. Thank you editors 🙏 link 👉 revolutionjohnjournal.wordpress.com/2026/09/14/s...
Stuck in the “messy middle”? This class will help writers working on a book-length manuscript explore hybrid techniques as a way to solve common issues in memoir writing. Sunday, Sept. 27th 10:00am-1:00pm PT. Via Zoom. www.writersgrotto.org/classes-and-... #writing #memoir #memoirwriting
Grotto Nights at the Library: Jilanne Hoffman, author of Heartland, in conversation with Leslie Kirk Campbell. Sept 29, 6–7:30pm, SFPL Main Branch. Signing to follow, books from Noe Valley Books.
Learn to write an irresistible pitch. Saturday, September 26th, from 10:00am - 12pm PT. Via Zoom. www.writersgrotto.org/classes-and-... #writing #writingcommunity
In this workshop, writers will practice ways to develop irresistible characters, seed storylines, set a tone, hone a distinctive voice—and hook audiences. Saturdays, Sept. 26th - Oct. 24th 10:00am - 12:00pm PT. Via Zoom. www.writersgrotto.org/classes-and-... #writing #scriptwriting #tvwriting
Join us for a FREE lunchtime reading in the beautiful Wetlands Garden of the TJPA Salesforce Park! Nate Olivarez-Giles and Connie Hale will be reading from their work, come by! Words & Stories Reading Series September 16 • 1:00–1:30pm Wetlands Garden of TJPA’s Salesforce Park #literaryevents
Join us Sept. 19 at 6:30 PM at Telegraph Hill Books for Tides of Autumn: Stories about Loss, Love and Remembering — an evening of literature featuring six Writers Grotto authors. 📍 1501 Grant Ave., San Francisco #TidesOfAutumn #SanFranciscoEvents #LiteraryArts #Poetry
Words & Stories had another wonderful afternoon this past Wednesday at the Wetlands Garden at Salesforce Park! 🌿 Thank you to Susan Ito and Lyzette Wanzer for sharing their work, and to everyone who joined us. Come by next Wednesday for another free lunchtime reading!
Today is the last day to take advantage of Barnes & Noble's 25% off pre-orders sale! Get your hardcover copy of THE HERESY OF THIEVES on discount before it even hits the shelves! Then go fill out my form and claim your preorder swag! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-heresy...
💟 With an undying love of dinosaurs & a practice of wandering the woods, T.K. Rex is our kind of writer! Check out this fantastic review of T.K.'s new book THE WILDCRAFT DRONES & get stoked to hear them read this Sat, 9/12 at Babylon @ The Sycamore! Doors, 5pm. Reading, 5:30. www.babylonsalon.com
The Wildcraft Drones by T. K. Rex
Speculative fiction is able to imagine interaction with the other not as something horrific but as something positive for all.
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"A firecracker. JUNE MARTIN bursts onto the scene w/ this surreal comic novel, a book w/ heart, soul & viscera" ~Isaac Fellman (Dead Collections) Check out this stellar review & get stoked to hear June read from LOVE/AGGRESSION this Sat, 9/12! www.babylonsalon.com @theworldsgreatestwriter.com
Love/Aggression: a review
This madcap novel is a sugar-rush of situational absurdity, wicked satire, hallucinatory imagery, and maximally burlesque characters.
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Saturday at The Sycamore!
Babylon Salon@babylonsalon.bsky.social · 4w agoOn Sat, Sept. 12, Babylon celebrates these 5 AMAZING #writers: ⭐ Vanessa Hua ⭐ June Martin ⭐ TK Rex ⭐ Shoshana von Blanckensee ⭐ Beth Winegarner Doors at 5pm, reading, 5:30. Admission is free! At The Sycamore SF (near 16th St BART). www.babylonsalon.com @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social #writing
